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What am I risking if I don’t update my SDK/JDK and bundled runtime/JRE every time there’s a security update?

It seems like there’s a new major security hole patched in Java every other week, and I would assume the same goes for other development platforms. After years of frustration trying to get customers to install and configure a compatible JRE on their systems, we started bundling one with our software. (By bundling, I mean we extract a copy of the JRE in our installation directory–we don’t install the JRE and configure it as the system default.)

What am I risking if I don’t update my SDK/JDK and bundled runtime/JRE every time there’s a security update?

It seems like there’s a new major security hole patched in Java every other week, and I would assume the same goes for other development platforms. After years of frustration trying to get customers to install and configure a compatible JRE on their systems, we started bundling one with our software. (By bundling, I mean we extract a copy of the JRE in our installation directory–we don’t install the JRE and configure it as the system default.)

What am I risking if I don’t update my SDK/JDK and bundled runtime/JRE every time there’s a security update?

It seems like there’s a new major security hole patched in Java every other week, and I would assume the same goes for other development platforms. After years of frustration trying to get customers to install and configure a compatible JRE on their systems, we started bundling one with our software. (By bundling, I mean we extract a copy of the JRE in our installation directory–we don’t install the JRE and configure it as the system default.)